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EXTENSION® to Introduce First-of-its-Kind Enterprise Care Team Collaboration and Communication Solution at HIMSS

FORT WAYNE, Ind. --(Business Wire)--

EXTENSION,
INC., the developer of award-winning critical alerting and alarm
management software for hospitals, announced today that it will
introduce its unified care team collaboration solution - EXTENSION
Engage™ - at the upcoming HIMSS (Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society) conference. The first-of-its-kind, EXTENSION
Engage blends alerting, messaging and presence to empower clinicians
with the means to maintain mobile awareness of patient progression at
every stage of their hospital stay. The EXTENSION Engage solution
features an innovative mobile user interface that seamlessly facilitates
collaboration and consultation among clinicians in their roles on the
dynamic care team.

EXTENSION's proficiency in designing contextual, mobile clinical
alerting software has enabled it to develop the most advanced EHR-e™
(EHR-extender™) solutions available to acute care hospitals today. An
EHR-e expands the use and value of the EHR - and other clinical systems
- through the mobilization of static data. More specifically, the EHR-e
wraps clinical event alerts with relevant patient data from the EHR and
presents the intelligent alert to the responsible caregiver's
in-building wireless data phone or smartphone allowing them to make
better care decisions. Like all EXTENSION solutions, EXTENSION Engage
aggregates data from the EHR, ADT, and other hospital systems. But
what's more is hat the contextual alert is integrated with secure
text-messaging and presence functionality, all in a single application.

Todd Plesko, EXTENSION's Chief Executive Officer, commented, "EXTENSION
Engage was designed using everything we have learned about clinician's
collaboration needs. For the first time, clinicians can use one app on
one device for all of their alerting and secure messaging needs. No
other solution can integrate to as many clinical and administrative
hospital information systems as EXTENSION, offer comprehensive alarm
management, and send secure text messages to IP-enabled devices like
Cisco, SpectraLink and Vocera as well as smartphones including Apple (News - Alert) and
Android." Plesko added, "This is an enterprise solution that addresses
both the friction of inefficient communications and the primary causes
of alarm fatigue. There is heavy demand for this level of efficient
collaboration in nearly every hospital in the U.S. and beyond and we're
very excited to be the first to launch both alerting and messaging on
all the prevailing devices used by clinicians today."

In addition to highlighting its EHR-e methodology to facilitate seamless
care team communication, EXTENSION will demonstrate some of its most
popular critical alerting solutions in its booth at HIMSS including:

Nurse call alerts

Critical lab alerts

Electronic order notifications including STAT and CPOE orders

Full report availability notifications including cardiology,
pathology, and radiology reports

HIPAA-compliant text messaging

FDA-pending medical devices integration

EXTENSION Engage v1 is expected to be generally available by Q3 2013. To
learn more contact us at information@ext-inc.com.

EXTENSION will exhibit in booth #2463 at HIMSS13, March 4-7, at the
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. To learn more
about EXTENSION's clinical workflow and alarm management software schedule
a meeting or demo with an EXTENSION representative.